Iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -s 172.20.1.0/24 -j TCPMSS -clamp-mss-to-pmtu Iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE Iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -dport 1723 -m state -state NEW -j ACCEPT In this section I assume you’re logged in as the root user, do NOT have any instance of pptpd installed now or earlier and the “_forward” is commented in the /etc/nf file. All you have to do is login to your Debian/Ubuntu server and copy paste the following commands and you’ll have a working VPN server in less than 2 mins. You’ll find a lot of articles on the internet with the similar topic but in this article I’ll keep the configuration part as short as possible setting up only the bare minimum to get a PPTP VPN server running in the time it takes to make noodles! Quick setup: Copy and Paste To create a similar type of VPN server in windows read this tutorial. So I quickly setup VPN server on an AWS micro instance running Linux (Ubuntu) and accessed everything I wanted, so here I am writing this article for the benefit of all netizens.

And to make matters worse I wasn’t able to access my own blog :'( as it was located in Dallas (so traffic had to pass through damaged cable). For me several websites including the world’s 6th popular website Wikipedia didn’t load at all. Last month the undersea cable SEA-ME-WE 4 cable was cut near Egypt causing a massive degradation of internet speed in India.

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